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Blacksmith Tweaks

Warning is below, but TL;DR: I'm 101% confident this causes balance issues, if you have an obscene amount of unspent gold and iron.

This mod overhauls the blacksmith behavior to what I initially thought it would work like, albeit with some changes.
The blacksmith allows you to upgrade an item's BASE item level (read: the level you found it on), but prevents you from upgrading if:

• The item is beyond your current character level.
  
• The item cannot be equipped after upgrading.

Blacksmith upgrades still make equipment upgrade scaling much cheaper. Iron is only used when upgrading from an increment of 5 (upgrading towards ilvl 6, 11, 16, etc).

As an added extra bonus, the game now randomly hands out item upgrade levels (the "+1" after the item level) to all your currently equipped items after a boss is defeated (exceptions are Totem Pole, which does not upgrade anything and the final boss, which gives two chances), but only if the following conditions are met:

• A random chance of 50% is rolled for each item,
  
• If the item is not +15 already, and...
  
• If the combined item level and upgrade level is not higher than the current area level.

The game lets you know which items are upgraded after an eligible boss. If nothing shows, that means nothing was eligible for upgrade (ilvl too high) or all the chances are missed.

WARNING: This definitely will make the game much easier, as it alleviates most of the grind for new gear and allows you to focus on solely getting higher quality/tier gear. Though the upgrades might be cheap with a maximized blacksmith and an exorbitant amount of gold and iron.

Replaces the following script files:
scripts/Town/EquipmentUpgradeShopContent.as
scripts/WorldScript/SpawnBossRewardEquipment.as